Jaguar Land Rover Scales up Production of Face Visor for NHS Staff Fighting COVID-19

Jaguar Land Rover is scaling up manufacturing of its protecting face visors. New tooling, developed by WHS Plastics, will produce an extra 14 000 visors every week for key staff throughout the UK.

Earlier this month, the carmaker introduced the manufacture of 3D-printed face visors at its Advanced Product Creation Centre in Gaydon, residence to one of the superior 3D-printing services in Europe. Visors have been produced and shipped to NHS Trusts throughout the UK, together with the Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust.

Now, utilizing injection mould tooling provided by WHS Plastics of Sutton Coldfield, the operation will produce in extra of two 000 per day – with one polypropylene headband generated each 30 s.

Jaguar Land Rover can also be releasing its NHS-approved CAD design within the hope that companies with Additive Manufacturing services will be a part of the worldwide name for extra Personal Protection Equipment (PPE); the ready-to-print recordsdata might be downloaded right here.

Each face visor has been designed to be reusable and might be dismantled and cleaned earlier than getting used once more, safeguarding NHS trusts in opposition to future shortages.

Jaguar Land Rover continues to work carefully with the UK authorities and has supplied its analysis and engineering experience, in addition to digital engineering and design, the printing of 3D fashions and prototypes, machine studying, synthetic intelligence and knowledge science assist.

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